To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
When we are inclined to boast of our position [as Christians] we should remember that we are but Gentiles, while the Jews… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull… — Deva Arani Copy Share Image
A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel… — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“We speak in hushed voices, so as not to wake our memories, the things we've done, the things we'll continue to do,… — Daniel Grayson Copy Share Image
We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass… — Allen West Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was Scream Who begat Blood Who begat Eye Who begat Fear Who begat Wing Who begat Bone Who begat… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me, those who are to come. I looked back and saw my… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“ The Voyager We are all lonely voyagers sailing on life's ebb tide, To a far off place were all stripling warriors… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,” Jessica said severely. “It would be far… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their… — Tom Devine Copy Share Image
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image